{"id":130,"date":"2007-03-09T21:59:27","date_gmt":"2007-03-10T04:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=130"},"modified":"2007-03-10T03:13:03","modified_gmt":"2007-03-10T10:13:03","slug":"take-your-whiskey-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Take Your Whiskey Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Does any band hate its fans more than Van Halen? First they announce the tour. Then the tour is postponed. Then they&#8217;re not going to play at the Rock &#038; Roll Hall of Fame ceremony and Velvet Revolver will play for them instead. Then they&#8217;re not even going to attend. Then some of them are. Then the rest of them suggest they might. Then Eddie realizes <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/van-halen.com\/\">he&#8217;s still drunk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kat sums it up perfectly: &#8220;That message seems so sincere, and then the copyright notice at the bottom made it feel icky.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I guess I&#8217;ve just been burned too many times, but I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s genuine or not. This gives Ed a convenient excuse to sidestep the entire Rock &#038; Roll Hall of Fame ceremony altogether and change is label from &#8220;asshole&#8221; to &#8220;tortured artist who needs our support now more than ever, get well soon our ailing comrade, we salute you for getting your life back together.&#8221; Cue Velvet Revolver.<\/p>\n<p>And hey, maybe rehab should have been considered <em>before <\/em>all these other moves? Maybe the friends and family members and accountants that will inevitably benefit from a comeback\/reunion\/tour\/sign of life could have had a goddamned intervention to save Ed <em>before <\/em>allowing all these plans to be announced?<\/p>\n<p>Guess &#8220;Runaround&#8221; isn&#8217;t just a single from 1991.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/rrc\/vheart.gif\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does any band hate its fans more than Van Halen? First they announce the tour. Then the tour is postponed. Then they&#8217;re not going to play at the Rock &#038; Roll Hall of Fame ceremony and Velvet Revolver will play &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/?p=130\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bunnyears.net\/dan\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}